Following the death of Grammy-winning Indian musician Zakir Hussain in December 2024, an old video resurfaced online in posts ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, left, and Flautist Rakesh ... He left me with a khazana of invaluable lessons that will stay with me all my life." The concluding segment of the must ...

Singh, who received the prestigious Hasselblad Award in 2022, was already photographing tabla maestro Zakir Hussain when she went on the tour ... which she found during Covid while looking through her ...

Zakir Hussain ... of playing the tabla. It was also about understanding the cultural depth and spiritual significance his father attached to rhythm. Growing up in a home where music was both a ...

“Post-Covid, there is a huge shift towards ... Munjal also paused to reflect on the legacy of the late great tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, whose untimely death during the week of SAF ...

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain will be laid to rest in San Francisco on Thursday, Press Trust of India reported, quoting family sources. Zakir Hussain, one of the world's most accomplished ...

If you ever met or moved in the presence of Zakir Hussain, this is perhaps the image ... His qualities presented themselves as lessons time and again. I recall being introduced to him backstage ...

Sometime in the 1970s, Zakir Hussain, a young and rising tabla virtuoso, was travelling solo to Benaras for a prestigious concert with the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Worried ...

Zakir Hussain ... playing the tabla. The hours of practice and dedication secured for him his unparalleled technique—on one occasion a music critic likened the speed of his fingers to the beat of a ...